AGTS Press Release: AGTS Welcomes Johan Mostert to Faculty

Springfield, Mo.–October 22, 2004–AGTS is pleased
to announce Dr. Johan Mostert has joined the faculty as associate
professor of community psychology. Born in Cape Town, South Africa,
Mostert came to the United States to earn a B.S. in psychology
and classical languages at Bethany College,
Santa Cruz, California (1972). Upon returning to South Africa,
he earned a D.Phil. at the University of Pretoria (1992). His
thesis explored the psychodynamics of pastoral ministry. Mostert
is a registered psychologist and social worker.

In South Africa, Mostert pastored several churches
and was involved in both faith-based and government welfare organizations.
He served as a pastoral counselor for 200 abused and abandoned
children at a children’s village in Johannesburg and was
an ordained minister with the Apostolic Faith Mission of South
Africa, the largest Pentecostal church in southern Africa.

Mostert
helped establish the National Welfare Forum in South Africa,
which brought together thousands of government and non-government
organizations (NGOs). The forum played an important role throughout
South Africa’s recent transition to democracy by giving
voice to the many non-white NGOs.

Since 2000, Mostert has been
serving as a development consultant for a variety of organizations
in South Africa, specializing in fighting poverty and AIDS. With
his wife, Andrea, he coauthored a parenting skills book in the
Afrikaans language.
According to Joseph Castleberry, academic dean, Mostert represents
the ideal qualities that AGTS looks for in faculty. “A
professor doesn’t get to come here unless he or she is
the best available person in the world,” said Castleberry. “God
and the Church deserve nothing less. In Dr. Mostert, we found
a world-class leader whose educational credentials are exceeded
only by his excellence in ministerial practice. He is considered
a leading global authority on what may be the gravest issue facing
the human race—the international AIDS crisis. Not only
will he teach students what they need to know, Dr. Mostert will
also model what they can become—godly, well-trained agents
of healing in a sin-infested, broken world.”

AGTS is one
of the world’s leading Pentecostal seminaries
with one of the ten largest doctor of ministry programs in the
nation. For more information, contact Jennifer Hall at 417-268-1024
or promotions@agts.edu.